Bibliograph

Storm world, hurricanes, politics, and the battle over global warming, Chris Mooney

Type

Label

Storm world, hurricanes, politics, and the battle over global warming, Chris Mooney

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Storm world

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Chris Mooney

Series statement

A harvest book

Sub title

hurricanes, politics, and the battle over global warming

Summary

An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times bestselling author of The Republican War on Science. One of the leading science journalists and commentators working today, Chris Mooney delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming. In the wake of Katrina, Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already a fraught scientific debate. As Mooney puts it: "Scientists, like hurricanes, do extraordinary things at high wind speeds." Mooney-a native of New Orleans-has written a fascinating and urgently compelling book that calls into question the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are we responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already are?

Target audience

adult

Classification